WEBVTT - Firing Up The Defense Production Act 0:00:03.279 --> 0:00:15.120 You are entering the freedom much is the shelter in 0:00:15.240 --> 0:00:18.200 place order coming to New York City? Will it be 0:00:18.280 --> 0:00:20.880 followed with different orders like it in cities and perhaps 0:00:20.960 --> 0:00:24.760 towns across the country. Plus, how is this economic rescue 0:00:24.800 --> 0:00:28.040 package coming along? Is the Department of Defense going to 0:00:28.120 --> 0:00:29.920 be called in? And I've got at least one idea 0:00:29.960 --> 0:00:32.519 to try to help ease this period for folks who 0:00:32.520 --> 0:00:34.000 are on the front lines. We got that and more 0:00:34.040 --> 0:00:37.400 coming up on The buck Sexton Show. This is the 0:00:37.400 --> 0:00:40.559 buck Sexton Show, where the mission or mission is to 0:00:40.600 --> 0:00:47.239 decode what really matters with actionable intelligence. Make no mistake America, 0:00:48.159 --> 0:00:53.600 You're a great American Again, the buck Sexton Show begins, 0:00:54.760 --> 0:01:00.560 He's a great guy. No. Well, from the buck Sexton Show, everybody, 0:01:00.600 --> 0:01:02.680 thank you so much for being here. Thank you for 0:01:02.760 --> 0:01:08.720 joining me during what is clearly a very challenging time 0:01:09.160 --> 0:01:14.280 in this country. We are in the midst of a pandemic, 0:01:14.560 --> 0:01:17.160 or at least pandemic preparations the likes of which we 0:01:17.200 --> 0:01:23.360 have never seen before. Understandably, people are deeply, deeply concerned 0:01:23.360 --> 0:01:25.479 about this. I don't think the word concern even really 0:01:26.080 --> 0:01:28.240 covers the feeling right now of a lot of folks 0:01:28.240 --> 0:01:33.240 across the country, and I mean this in all seriousness. 0:01:33.400 --> 0:01:37.360 So I'm going to try to stay with my overall 0:01:37.800 --> 0:01:40.080 promise to you that I will limit to degree that 0:01:40.120 --> 0:01:44.120 I can unnecessary partisan commentary during the show. Now that 0:01:44.120 --> 0:01:46.039 doesn't mean there won't be any, because there's always and 0:01:46.120 --> 0:01:47.720 we're going to be in this for months, Okay, I 0:01:47.800 --> 0:01:49.440 meaning that there's going to be this problem. I don't 0:01:49.440 --> 0:01:52.960 know what degree, but coronavirus is here for months at 0:01:52.960 --> 0:01:56.840 a minimum, maybe not to the same level we're seeing 0:01:56.880 --> 0:01:58.400 it now with a different and we're going to walk 0:01:58.400 --> 0:02:00.400 through all this together or give you all the latest 0:02:00.480 --> 0:02:06.800 on everything. But this is a moment in time when 0:02:07.520 --> 0:02:10.639 we can take a step back and be people first, 0:02:10.720 --> 0:02:15.079 before we are politicos, before we are partisans. There will 0:02:15.120 --> 0:02:17.160 be some pushback that'll have to do, and that'll even 0:02:17.240 --> 0:02:22.760 come today against anyone who is lying about the President, 0:02:22.840 --> 0:02:25.359 trying to make it harder for us, trying to make 0:02:25.400 --> 0:02:28.880 things more difficult for the President's response team to do 0:02:28.919 --> 0:02:32.520 everything they're trying to do. But overall, we will be 0:02:32.560 --> 0:02:36.880 in a position I think where we can say, okay, 0:02:37.120 --> 0:02:40.080 let's focus first here on what's really happening. What we 0:02:40.160 --> 0:02:42.480 know is going on. You know, I'm here in New 0:02:42.520 --> 0:02:45.320 York and we're about to in the next twenty four 0:02:45.360 --> 0:02:47.960 hours find out because de Blasio, the mayor here, has 0:02:48.000 --> 0:02:53.919 said that it'll be that time period when he determines 0:02:54.560 --> 0:02:57.600 in consultation with the state, because really the city doesn't 0:02:57.600 --> 0:03:00.760 have those full police powers without this dates say so 0:03:01.240 --> 0:03:04.320 and you'll quarantine powers are very tied into police powers. 0:03:05.720 --> 0:03:08.520 Public health authorities are at the state level. You know. 0:03:08.560 --> 0:03:10.440 It's not like a city can decide, oh, we're a 0:03:11.240 --> 0:03:14.680 Corona free zone, so we'll do whatever we want. But 0:03:14.880 --> 0:03:16.520 we might have a situation like what they have in 0:03:16.560 --> 0:03:18.720 San Francisco where you're just not really allowed to leave 0:03:18.720 --> 0:03:21.040 your house unless you're considered a central personnel or you're 0:03:21.080 --> 0:03:24.360 going to get food or medicine. That's it. Forget about 0:03:24.360 --> 0:03:30.120 social distancing. This is the end of socializing, and I'm 0:03:30.120 --> 0:03:31.640 going to try to strike as much of a balance 0:03:31.680 --> 0:03:33.560 as I can as we go through this. I'm hopeful 0:03:33.919 --> 0:03:37.240 that within a few weeks we will feel much better 0:03:37.360 --> 0:03:39.640 about this whole situation than we do right now. We'll 0:03:39.640 --> 0:03:42.800 feel like, at least it's somewhat under control. I am 0:03:42.840 --> 0:03:46.600 hopeful about that. I can't guarantee it. Obviously, no one 0:03:46.640 --> 0:03:50.400 can guarantee much of anything these days. The economy is 0:03:50.720 --> 0:03:55.000 in a terrifying spot. Now, how frightened should we be 0:03:55.040 --> 0:03:57.440 of the virus? That really remains to be seen. We 0:03:57.480 --> 0:04:00.480 have to see what the numbers are. But if economy 0:04:00.480 --> 0:04:02.920 stays like this, We've never been through something like this before. 0:04:02.960 --> 0:04:07.560 This isn't one sector dragging everything down. This isn't one 0:04:09.560 --> 0:04:14.400 aspect of our fiscal policy that's causing all kinds of problems. 0:04:14.760 --> 0:04:18.240 We are going to be in for a terrible economic 0:04:18.320 --> 0:04:20.719 ride here across the board, because we are in the 0:04:20.720 --> 0:04:23.839 midst of what is effectively a total freeze on the economy. 0:04:25.520 --> 0:04:30.800 Is this is going to be rough. The economic side 0:04:30.839 --> 0:04:32.880 is definitely going to be rough. There's no question about that. 0:04:33.640 --> 0:04:36.679 And I think that you can even see and I'm sorry. 0:04:36.680 --> 0:04:39.680 As I sit here, I'm sometimes force myself to pause 0:04:39.720 --> 0:04:41.560 because I go, oh, I just touched my face. I 0:04:41.600 --> 0:04:43.640 can't stop the You know, I only do it when 0:04:43.680 --> 0:04:46.839 I'm home. But when you realize how often you touch 0:04:46.880 --> 0:04:49.120 your face, then you realize how much more you need 0:04:49.160 --> 0:04:52.400 to wash your hands. It's tough to escape this stuff. 0:04:53.200 --> 0:04:55.320 It's with you all the time. It stays in your 0:04:55.320 --> 0:04:58.440 mind constantly, so to give you a sense of just 0:04:58.560 --> 0:05:02.320 how bad the circle umstances really are. Right now. You 0:05:02.400 --> 0:05:07.039 have people who are very quick and having very quick 0:05:07.080 --> 0:05:10.720 to be deeply critical of the president on everything, and 0:05:10.760 --> 0:05:14.719 I would say, in many cases unfairly critical of the president. 0:05:15.000 --> 0:05:18.479 You have some of those people coming forward to say, Okay, 0:05:19.320 --> 0:05:24.240 let's actually handle this as adults, and the President's doing 0:05:25.279 --> 0:05:28.359 a good job. Here is a Governor Cuomo of New 0:05:28.440 --> 0:05:33.359 York for example, play clip three. This government has done somersaults. 0:05:33.800 --> 0:05:37.440 It's performed better than ever before. I am telling you 0:05:37.960 --> 0:05:43.440 this government cannot meet this crisis without the resources and 0:05:43.520 --> 0:05:48.400 capacity of the federal government. I spoke to the President 0:05:48.800 --> 0:05:53.760 this morning again he is ready, willing and able to help. 0:05:53.839 --> 0:05:57.200 I've been speaking with members of his stash late last 0:05:57.279 --> 0:06:01.400 night early this morning. We need their health, especially on 0:06:01.480 --> 0:06:07.480 the hospital capacity issue. We need FEMA. FEMA has tremendous resources. 0:06:07.520 --> 0:06:09.520 When I was at HUT, I worked with FEMA. I 0:06:09.600 --> 0:06:11.720 know what they can do. I know what the Army 0:06:11.760 --> 0:06:15.839 Corps of Engineers can do. They have a capacity that 0:06:15.920 --> 0:06:19.320 we simply do not have. I said to the President, 0:06:20.360 --> 0:06:22.960 who is a New Yorker who I've known for many 0:06:23.000 --> 0:06:26.800 many years. I put my hand out in partnership. I 0:06:26.920 --> 0:06:31.520 want to work together one I need your help. I 0:06:31.560 --> 0:06:35.880 want your help, and New Yorkers will do everything they 0:06:35.920 --> 0:06:39.760 can to be good partners with the federal government. I 0:06:39.800 --> 0:06:43.520 think the President was one hundred percent sincere in saying 0:06:43.600 --> 0:06:47.919 that he wanted to work together in partnership and a 0:06:48.000 --> 0:06:52.680 spirit of cooppudence. He has taken evidence that his team 0:06:52.720 --> 0:06:55.480 has been on it. I know a team when they're 0:06:55.520 --> 0:06:57.720 on it, and I know a team when they're not 0:06:57.839 --> 0:07:01.960 on it. His team is on it, been responsive late 0:07:01.960 --> 0:07:06.479 at night, early in the morning, and they've thus far 0:07:06.720 --> 0:07:09.240 been doing everything that they can do. And I want 0:07:09.240 --> 0:07:11.400 to say thank you, and I want to say that 0:07:11.440 --> 0:07:15.960 I appreciate it. All right, What is he really referring 0:07:16.000 --> 0:07:18.440 to in terms of the imminent fight ahead? I mean, 0:07:18.480 --> 0:07:20.640 that's the governor of New York. New York just because 0:07:20.640 --> 0:07:25.720 of population density is now they're the most cases in 0:07:25.760 --> 0:07:27.880 New York, and we are going to end up having 0:07:27.920 --> 0:07:30.840 the most fatalities here. And this will also be viewed, 0:07:30.880 --> 0:07:33.240 I think as a test case, because if social distancing 0:07:33.280 --> 0:07:36.160 and the policies that they're putting in place can work here, 0:07:36.480 --> 0:07:38.800 they can obviously work anywhere. A lot of you listening 0:07:38.800 --> 0:07:41.440 to this live in parts of the country where there 0:07:41.440 --> 0:07:46.480 are far fewer cases, there's far less human population density 0:07:46.480 --> 0:07:49.880 to worry about in the first place. So if it 0:07:49.920 --> 0:07:56.720 can work in New York, it'll obviously work out in Indiana, Texas, Utah, Minnesota, 0:07:56.880 --> 0:07:58.960 you name it, right, a lot of places where this 0:07:59.000 --> 0:08:01.360 will be able to be much more easily, I think 0:08:01.400 --> 0:08:03.400 put into effect. It's going to be painful for everybody, 0:08:03.400 --> 0:08:07.000 but it's more difficult here than it is in other places. 0:08:07.640 --> 0:08:10.280 So then that brings me to the hospital bed issue. 0:08:10.480 --> 0:08:13.080 Here's what we're being told the fifteen days to flatten 0:08:13.160 --> 0:08:17.040 the curve. Everyone's been crunching the numbers on what's happening 0:08:17.040 --> 0:08:19.600 in Italy, and flatten the curve has become a phrase, 0:08:20.040 --> 0:08:24.040 almost a rallying cry now for people who want there 0:08:24.080 --> 0:08:30.240 to be very serious, immediate, severe measures taken to avoid 0:08:31.160 --> 0:08:33.200 the fate of Italy, which is really what everyone points 0:08:33.240 --> 0:08:34.880 to right now. And I would note that Spain and 0:08:34.920 --> 0:08:38.120 France and Germany, it's not clear how far behind Italy 0:08:38.240 --> 0:08:41.559 they are. But what happened in Italy was you had 0:08:41.600 --> 0:08:46.600 too many infections too quickly at the same time, and 0:08:46.840 --> 0:08:50.560 the hospital system is just overwhelmed, meaning they do not 0:08:50.840 --> 0:08:55.000 have enough ICU beds, they don't have enough medical practitioners. 0:08:55.040 --> 0:08:59.360 A lot of their medical practitioners got COVID nineteen, a 0:08:59.400 --> 0:09:03.240 lot of them came down with the disease wuhan virus. Again, 0:09:03.240 --> 0:09:04.760 I'm gonna call it the different things, because there's a 0:09:04.760 --> 0:09:07.280 lot of things that we can call it. But that's 0:09:07.920 --> 0:09:10.840 that's what ended up being the case in Italy. And 0:09:10.880 --> 0:09:13.320 we can see that and look at the projections of 0:09:13.400 --> 0:09:18.040 infections there on a time graph, number of infections and 0:09:18.640 --> 0:09:21.320 number of a number of days that have passed, and 0:09:21.400 --> 0:09:23.720 we are considered to be about eight to ten days 0:09:23.880 --> 0:09:30.280 right now behind where Italy was before their crisis completely exploded. 0:09:31.480 --> 0:09:34.400 Or perhaps we're even eight to ten days behind Italy period. 0:09:34.520 --> 0:09:37.200 I mean, it depends on how you're going to line 0:09:37.280 --> 0:09:39.600 up the numbers, what part, what part of the north 0:09:39.640 --> 0:09:41.560 of Italy we're talking about, or if we're just talking 0:09:41.600 --> 0:09:45.480 about some cities, some sections, so we're not far behind them. 0:09:45.520 --> 0:09:47.320 And we're trying to make sure that we don't have 0:09:47.360 --> 0:09:51.319 a situation here where the ICU beds are all full, 0:09:51.840 --> 0:09:55.520 because then people show up and they say I can't breathe. 0:09:56.160 --> 0:09:58.480 If they're in the high risk population. I'm having trouble breathing. 0:09:58.520 --> 0:10:02.400 I think I think I have COVID nineteen. What can 0:10:02.440 --> 0:10:06.520 we do about this? And the response will be We're 0:10:06.520 --> 0:10:08.080 going to do everything we can, but we don't have 0:10:08.280 --> 0:10:11.400 If we take somebody else off a ventilator, that person's 0:10:11.440 --> 0:10:15.640 going to die. So you get into this really horrible, inhumane, 0:10:15.720 --> 0:10:19.880 but unavoidable first come, first served to the ventilator situation, 0:10:20.520 --> 0:10:22.800 which is terrifying to people. So we are trying to 0:10:22.840 --> 0:10:25.640 avoid that here, and that's what the flattened the curve 0:10:25.800 --> 0:10:30.360 mantra is all about. We have efforts being made now 0:10:30.400 --> 0:10:34.200 to get ahead of this. The Army Corps of Engineers, 0:10:34.440 --> 0:10:37.720 Department of Defense. You know, the military has an ability 0:10:37.720 --> 0:10:40.559 to set up field hospitals that may be happening. Now, 0:10:40.559 --> 0:10:44.640 there's a lot of discussion about taking perhaps empty university space, 0:10:44.679 --> 0:10:46.679 because the universities have all been emptied out across the 0:10:46.720 --> 0:10:51.600 country pretty much, taking them and setting up additional hospital 0:10:51.600 --> 0:10:54.120 bed setting up additional facilities. As I've been saying, this 0:10:54.200 --> 0:10:56.120 is considered an all it is an all hands on 0:10:56.200 --> 0:11:00.959 deck situation. Now we know now we know that this 0:11:01.080 --> 0:11:04.840 disease is more dangerous than the flu, it is more 0:11:04.920 --> 0:11:08.760 severe and it's very, very highly infectious. Stars years ago 0:11:08.880 --> 0:11:12.200 was terrifying until we realize that you really weren't able 0:11:12.240 --> 0:11:15.320 to pass on Stars unless you add the extreme symptoms 0:11:15.360 --> 0:11:18.600 of Stars. The problem we're having with COVID nineteen is 0:11:18.640 --> 0:11:21.480 that they think now people are not only do they 0:11:21.480 --> 0:11:25.200 not know they're infected, but they're they're spreading the infection 0:11:25.280 --> 0:11:28.199 while not having any symptoms, which just means that no 0:11:28.200 --> 0:11:32.120 matter how judicious a person is about public announcements, that 0:11:32.200 --> 0:11:35.959 everything else, unless they social distance, whether they have symptoms 0:11:36.040 --> 0:11:39.040 or not, they may be spreading the virus to other people. 0:11:39.080 --> 0:11:43.920 So that's that's where this is right now. And you know, 0:11:43.960 --> 0:11:46.920 then there's the troubling analysis that we saw that you're 0:11:46.960 --> 0:11:49.200 seeing probably this morning about how long this is going 0:11:49.240 --> 0:11:50.839 to last. I want to get into the timelines a 0:11:50.880 --> 0:11:52.600 little bit here, and also just to a promise to you, 0:11:53.360 --> 0:11:55.360 we're going to talk about some other things today. I 0:11:55.400 --> 0:12:00.720 will always take any suggestions for just or history, deep 0:12:00.760 --> 0:12:03.120 dives or subject matter that you want me to address 0:12:03.160 --> 0:12:06.360 here on the show, because we're in for a long haul, 0:12:06.440 --> 0:12:09.720 certainly weeks, maybe months. This story is not going away. 0:12:09.960 --> 0:12:12.480 Journalists are not chasing anything else. There's not a lot 0:12:12.480 --> 0:12:16.360 of other information gathering going on out there right now, 0:12:16.400 --> 0:12:19.040 because this is the single biggest problem facing all of humanity. 0:12:19.640 --> 0:12:21.600 Not climate change, by the way, but I'll try to 0:12:21.679 --> 0:12:24.480 keep the climate change snark to a minimum for now. 0:12:25.280 --> 0:12:28.880 Glad we had the community of world scientists focusing for 0:12:28.920 --> 0:12:32.319 the last decade on something that's a non problem, when 0:12:32.360 --> 0:12:34.200 a problem like this was sneaking up on us and 0:12:34.200 --> 0:12:36.480 people knew, which was just a matter of time. And 0:12:36.559 --> 0:12:42.200 now here we are facing a depression and I don't 0:12:42.240 --> 0:12:44.920 even know how you can describe the disruptions of life 0:12:44.960 --> 0:12:47.440 that we might be under. This is also where I 0:12:47.480 --> 0:12:50.240 tell you we will get through. We will be okay. 0:12:50.400 --> 0:12:53.319 I'm here for you, you are here for me, and 0:12:53.480 --> 0:12:55.000 in the end we're all going to be all right. 0:12:55.480 --> 0:13:02.800 But it's going to be a rough ride. You're in 0:13:02.840 --> 0:13:17.240 the freedom. This is the Buck Sexton Show podcast. I mean, look, 0:13:17.320 --> 0:13:20.160 this is just coming back to where this conversation started. 0:13:20.200 --> 0:13:22.360 After the press conference, I hear with Sanjay Is saying 0:13:22.440 --> 0:13:26.280 about Tony Faucci giving you a little bit more wiggle 0:13:26.360 --> 0:13:29.360 room than others. But if you look at the big picture, 0:13:29.760 --> 0:13:32.760 this was remarkable from the President of the United States. 0:13:32.800 --> 0:13:36.920 This is a nonpartisan. This is an important thing to 0:13:37.040 --> 0:13:40.280 note and to applaud from an American standpoint, from a 0:13:40.559 --> 0:13:45.920 from a human standpoint, he is being the kind of 0:13:46.040 --> 0:13:50.480 leader that people need, at least in tone today and yesterday, 0:13:50.600 --> 0:13:53.360 in tone that people need and want and yearn for 0:13:53.559 --> 0:13:58.079 in times of crisis and uncertainty. When a CNN political analyst, 0:13:58.120 --> 0:14:01.640 that was Donna Bash at CNN is saying the president's 0:14:01.679 --> 0:14:03.560 leadership is needed right now and he's doing a good job, 0:14:04.040 --> 0:14:06.280 and I mean this in all honesty, you know, it's serious. 0:14:07.600 --> 0:14:09.640 I haven't heard anything like that from anybody who works 0:14:09.640 --> 0:14:13.000 for that news organization. In over three years, I've heard 0:14:13.000 --> 0:14:17.040 a completely consistent stream of the exact opposite, actually, that 0:14:17.080 --> 0:14:20.360 President Trump was a traitor and horrible and ruining the 0:14:20.400 --> 0:14:23.160 country and a threat to democracy. And now we see 0:14:23.200 --> 0:14:27.040 what is effectively a threat to humanity. And it does 0:14:27.160 --> 0:14:30.119 remind us all of what a bunch of petty nonsense 0:14:30.160 --> 0:14:32.000 the country was put through for years. You know, we 0:14:32.040 --> 0:14:35.720 could have been focusing on real problems, real challenges, things 0:14:35.760 --> 0:14:40.720 like infectious disease, dealing with poverty, dealing with upward mobility. 0:14:40.800 --> 0:14:43.440 We could have done that, that could have been where 0:14:43.440 --> 0:14:46.240 the media's attention was, but no, instead it was just 0:14:46.280 --> 0:14:51.120 a steady stream of Trump hatred. They do bear responsibility, 0:14:51.200 --> 0:14:55.800 not just for crying wolf, which certainly slowed some of 0:14:55.800 --> 0:14:58.600 the recognition that the country had about the severity of this, 0:14:58.760 --> 0:15:01.960 because the media says everything Trump does is horrible, and 0:15:02.000 --> 0:15:04.440 they say anything that challenged any challenge that Trump faces 0:15:04.480 --> 0:15:07.720 he's not up to. So that affected the analysis that 0:15:07.760 --> 0:15:10.600 many of us did on whether or not this should 0:15:10.640 --> 0:15:14.160 be taken as the pandemic or expected to be the 0:15:14.200 --> 0:15:18.080 pandemic that it is. And then you also have the 0:15:18.200 --> 0:15:22.200 reality of the media using its focus of the public's attention, 0:15:23.000 --> 0:15:27.360 which does direct things like resources, which does have real effects. 0:15:28.280 --> 0:15:32.920 That focus of the public's attention that could have been 0:15:32.920 --> 0:15:35.440 put to productive use, but instead was put to anti 0:15:35.480 --> 0:15:39.360 Trump't arrangement purposes that were a complete waste, a complete 0:15:39.360 --> 0:15:44.480 waste of everybody's time, a total, utter, shocking waste, and 0:15:45.200 --> 0:15:48.080 it's appalling. And they've advocated the responsibility they have the 0:15:48.120 --> 0:15:50.320 American people. Now, all right, I'm getting a little more 0:15:50.320 --> 0:15:51.760 political than I meant to, but I do have to. 0:15:52.040 --> 0:15:54.360 I also want to say, you know, thank you to 0:15:54.440 --> 0:15:57.080 Donna Bash for I know it's spelled Dana, but it 0:15:57.080 --> 0:16:00.800 actually has pronounced Donna. Thank you to Donna Bash for 0:16:01.480 --> 0:16:04.000 being honest about the situation. People need honesty right now. 0:16:04.040 --> 0:16:06.960 We need truth. We don't need partisan hacks. We don't 0:16:06.960 --> 0:16:09.920 need people that are trying to score cheap points. And 0:16:09.960 --> 0:16:11.960 this is why I know for some of you it's 0:16:11.960 --> 0:16:14.560 like nails on a chalkboard. But you know, when I 0:16:14.920 --> 0:16:17.600 play the Cuomo audio for you New York, when I've 0:16:17.600 --> 0:16:20.680 played Newsom saying that Trump's administration has been really helpful, 0:16:22.200 --> 0:16:25.280 I think it's necessary that we encourage truth telling from 0:16:25.320 --> 0:16:28.440 all signs and from anybody right now, and to the 0:16:28.440 --> 0:16:31.720 degree that we can put partisanship aside. So I mentioned 0:16:31.720 --> 0:16:34.960 the fight to get enough beds in place, and we're 0:16:35.000 --> 0:16:37.840 going to know really quickly if their projections and everything 0:16:37.840 --> 0:16:41.320 that we're being told about this are true. We're going 0:16:41.360 --> 0:16:43.640 to know in the next two to three weeks. We're 0:16:43.680 --> 0:16:45.960 going to know if what they've been saying about how 0:16:46.000 --> 0:16:48.400 desperately we need to stop the spread of this is accurate, 0:16:48.760 --> 0:16:53.880 So meaning and that the numbers that they're projecting are 0:16:53.920 --> 0:16:56.280 they coming true. Because we're doing all this and we're 0:16:56.320 --> 0:16:59.440 going to we're going to extremes here. You know, this 0:16:59.560 --> 0:17:06.879 is we're effectively shutting down our economy in order to 0:17:07.000 --> 0:17:10.800 stop what they say is the curve, or you know, 0:17:10.840 --> 0:17:15.320 from stop the spike and flatten the curve. There are 0:17:15.400 --> 0:17:18.160 some challenges that that comes with that are not even 0:17:18.200 --> 0:17:20.480 really thought through, I think at this point, one of 0:17:20.480 --> 0:17:22.600 them being that eventually people are just going to non 0:17:22.680 --> 0:17:26.080 comply and the state's gonna have a very hard time 0:17:26.080 --> 0:17:27.680 telling people that you don't get to live your life 0:17:27.720 --> 0:17:29.480 when you have a ninety nine percent chance. This is 0:17:29.520 --> 0:17:31.560 just reality. I'm just saying it. You don't get to 0:17:31.560 --> 0:17:33.880 live your life because there's a ninety nine percent chance 0:17:33.920 --> 0:17:36.960 you'll be okay, but there are other people who won't be. Eventually, 0:17:37.000 --> 0:17:40.480 people are going to say I'm going to take the risk. 0:17:41.480 --> 0:17:43.040 That's what's going to there. So we'll get into this 0:17:43.080 --> 0:17:45.200 and this is setting up something of a of an 0:17:45.200 --> 0:17:49.680 intergenerational tension that everyone's picking up on right now as well. 0:17:50.080 --> 0:17:54.320 But the fight over beds and preparation for the spike 0:17:54.359 --> 0:17:57.120 that is right now. You have to remember we are 0:17:57.280 --> 0:18:00.760 up ten times in a week nation. Why the case 0:18:00.880 --> 0:18:04.320 is here, we will be up five to ten times 0:18:04.359 --> 0:18:08.840 the number of cases next week as more testing happens, 0:18:09.359 --> 0:18:12.200 more cases will appear, and as more cases appear, there'll 0:18:12.240 --> 0:18:17.240 be greater anxiety about just how widespread this disease really is. 0:18:18.080 --> 0:18:21.040 So we have to focus right now on that fifteen 0:18:21.119 --> 0:18:24.520 day now thirteen day period that the President has been 0:18:24.520 --> 0:18:28.600 talking about. Thanks for listening to The bus Essen Show podcasts. 0:18:28.920 --> 0:18:32.480 Remember to subscribe on Apple podcasts, the iHeart Radio app, 0:18:32.640 --> 0:18:36.480 or wherever you get your podcasts. Now, this is where 0:18:36.680 --> 0:18:39.119 I have to take a moment to tell you that 0:18:39.200 --> 0:18:41.320 sometimes the press are, in fact the enemies of the people. 0:18:41.359 --> 0:18:44.840 That's a real thing. Some journalists right now we're doing 0:18:44.840 --> 0:18:47.560 excellent work and we need them to be bringing us 0:18:47.560 --> 0:18:50.800 facts and story. So I'm not I'm not using this 0:18:50.880 --> 0:18:54.600 as an opportunity to be smirch all journalists. Far from it. 0:18:55.560 --> 0:18:57.680 I mean, I technically I work in the media, so 0:18:57.760 --> 0:19:01.240 I'm in some ways part of the extended journalist family, 0:19:01.280 --> 0:19:04.159 I guess. But the New York Times when with a 0:19:04.200 --> 0:19:06.159 story right now, when people are at this degree of 0:19:07.640 --> 0:19:12.680 extreme unease, and remember panic, the word that I think, 0:19:12.680 --> 0:19:14.479 I don't know if I've explained on this show. Interesting 0:19:14.520 --> 0:19:17.160 derivation of it comes from the Greek god of the woods, 0:19:17.200 --> 0:19:19.480 pan who had the legs of a goat and little 0:19:19.480 --> 0:19:22.040 horns and play to flute. People know the pan flute. 0:19:23.280 --> 0:19:28.680 Panic is comes from panic coasts in ancient Greece, which 0:19:28.720 --> 0:19:30.200 was the feeling you had if you were in the woods. 0:19:30.240 --> 0:19:32.240 And they're not sure if it's if you saw Pan 0:19:32.359 --> 0:19:34.959 because it was a terrifying and scary situation, or if 0:19:34.960 --> 0:19:38.840 you're just in Pan's realm, the woods, away from civilization, 0:19:39.280 --> 0:19:42.879 away from you know, your family and your protectors, and 0:19:42.920 --> 0:19:47.160 so you have extreme anxiety that that comes on. That's 0:19:47.680 --> 0:19:49.280 that's where the word panic comes from. Much. I think 0:19:49.320 --> 0:19:51.399 is interesting because you're hearing it constantly right now. But 0:19:51.520 --> 0:19:55.080 we are in this this moment in time where things 0:19:55.080 --> 0:20:01.199 are particularly uneasy. I think that's a gentle way of 0:20:01.240 --> 0:20:03.040 saying it. And I'm right in the middle of it. 0:20:03.080 --> 0:20:05.400 Him and I am doing the show right now from 0:20:06.000 --> 0:20:10.240 midtown Manhattan. Why I could walk over to Times Square 0:20:10.240 --> 0:20:12.119 in a matter of minutes and it would be empty. 0:20:12.280 --> 0:20:15.479 It looks like that scene from Vanilla Sky, one of 0:20:15.480 --> 0:20:17.520 my least favorite movies of all time. By the way, 0:20:17.640 --> 0:20:20.600 I put Vanilla Sky in the ten worst movies I've 0:20:20.640 --> 0:20:23.359 ever seen, maybe even the five worst movies I've ever 0:20:23.359 --> 0:20:26.840 seen in the theater. It was god awful. But there's 0:20:26.880 --> 0:20:28.960 a scene where Time Square is completely empty. It's like 0:20:29.000 --> 0:20:31.040 a dream sequence. It's like that right now. I mean 0:20:31.040 --> 0:20:33.439 you might see a handful of people walking around, but 0:20:33.560 --> 0:20:37.679 usually you would see hundreds, maybe a thousand or two. Right, 0:20:37.880 --> 0:20:39.560 you could see a lot of people in Times Square. 0:20:40.480 --> 0:20:44.000 And because people are scared, so we're trying to get 0:20:44.040 --> 0:20:49.720 ready for the influx that is according to all experts. 0:20:49.800 --> 0:20:51.760 I don't know an expert who disagrees with this. I 0:20:51.760 --> 0:20:55.440 haven't seen one. I should say he influx of people 0:20:55.480 --> 0:20:58.520 who are infected with COVID nineteen and are having trouble breathing, 0:20:59.200 --> 0:21:02.920 and they send day they go to the hospital and 0:21:03.000 --> 0:21:06.040 they need really serious help. And it's not like they 0:21:06.080 --> 0:21:07.520 go in, they get patched up, and they get there 0:21:07.520 --> 0:21:09.600 out in a day. They're going to be on ventilators 0:21:09.720 --> 0:21:13.800 for a couple of weeks, two three, four weeks, so 0:21:13.840 --> 0:21:16.959 that each ventilator that someone gets on has taken offline 0:21:17.000 --> 0:21:21.639 for a long period of time. And the President was 0:21:21.680 --> 0:21:23.840 on a conference call with governors from around the nation, 0:21:23.880 --> 0:21:26.320 and this is what the New York Times reported, Trump 0:21:26.320 --> 0:21:30.840 to governors on ventilators, try getting it yourselves, and people 0:21:30.840 --> 0:21:35.200 were reporting this as wow, how could he, Oh, he's 0:21:35.200 --> 0:21:39.600 so awful. Respirators, ventilators, all the equipment, Try getting it yourselves, 0:21:41.680 --> 0:21:43.320 And there were people the New York Times you were 0:21:43.359 --> 0:21:45.760 sharing this like this was an appalling thing for the 0:21:46.119 --> 0:21:49.440 President to say. Well, he also said, the full quote 0:21:49.520 --> 0:21:52.600 is we will be backing you, but try getting it yourselves. 0:21:52.640 --> 0:21:55.119 Point of sales much much better, much more direct if 0:21:55.119 --> 0:21:58.560 you can get it yourself. This was treated as yet 0:21:58.600 --> 0:22:04.160 another another moment to criticize the president when all he's 0:22:04.160 --> 0:22:07.600 saying is do everything you can. I mean, the federal 0:22:07.600 --> 0:22:08.959 government's going to help you as much as it can. 0:22:08.960 --> 0:22:11.000 But guess what, the federal government's not perfect, doesn't have 0:22:11.880 --> 0:22:15.040 all the resources it needs right now because it just 0:22:15.119 --> 0:22:17.320 draws upon the resources of the people. We weren't ready 0:22:17.359 --> 0:22:20.040 for this. We're not really prepared for this. So if 0:22:20.040 --> 0:22:23.000 the states have a better way of getting some of this, 0:22:23.640 --> 0:22:26.520 they should just do it. You know, if you see 0:22:26.560 --> 0:22:28.800 something on Amazon, are you going to wait for the 0:22:28.880 --> 0:22:31.160 state authorities to deliver to your door. You're just gonna 0:22:31.160 --> 0:22:33.840 say I'm gonna buy that. That's all he's saying, and 0:22:33.920 --> 0:22:37.959 it was reported on as the presidents being, you know, unfeeling, 0:22:38.040 --> 0:22:40.600 and he doesn't care and in all this other stuff 0:22:40.760 --> 0:22:48.200 just just pure and utter garbage on the President notably 0:22:48.840 --> 0:22:54.600 annoyed by this play clip twelve and yesterday, I gave 0:22:54.640 --> 0:22:57.160 the governors the right to go order directly if they want, 0:22:57.200 --> 0:22:59.200 if they feel they can do it faster than going 0:22:59.200 --> 0:23:02.280 through the federal government. Now we've knocked out all of 0:23:02.320 --> 0:23:05.240 the bureaucracy, it's very direct, but it's still always fast 0:23:05.400 --> 0:23:07.760 to order directly. And I gave them that was totally 0:23:07.800 --> 0:23:13.600 misinterpreted by the New York Times on purpose, unfortunately, but yeah, 0:23:13.720 --> 0:23:16.679